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MARK CURTIS

Mark Curtis is the editor of Declassified UK, and the author of five books and many articles on UK foreign policy.
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen with British British foreign secretary William Hague and PM David Cameron at the Libya Conference in London, 2011. (Photo: Stefan Rousseau /WPA Pool/ Getty)

Manchester arena inquiry lets David Cameron off the hook

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March 3rd, 2023

Tagged LibyaManchester Bombingterrorism
Martin Griffiths, then UN Special Envoy for Yemen, meets with Saudi dictator Mohammed bin Salman in Riyadh, 8 November 2019. (Photo: Handout / SPA)

Former UN envoy to Yemen linked to businessman who worked in Saudi and UAE energy

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February 22nd, 2023

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Britain’s 42 coups since 1945

January 12th, 2023

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The UK’s 83 military interventions around the world since 1945

January 10th, 2023

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UK loaned military adviser to British UN envoy in Yemen

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January 6th, 2023

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Former UN envoy to Yemen linked to MI6, a party to the war

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January 5th, 2023

Tagged Yemen

Cambridge University’s course for spooks

December 13th, 2022

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11 years after toppling Gaddafi, UK gets Libya’s oil

November 29th, 2022

Tagged BPClimateLibyaShell

Britain’s secret role in the brutal US war in Vietnam

November 16th, 2022

Tagged CambodiaDeclassified filesusVietnam

When Britain backed Iran’s dictator

November 8th, 2022

Tagged Declassified filesIran

Britain’s covert war in Yemen

October 5th, 2022

Tagged Declassified filesEgyptSaudi ArabiaYemen

Explainer: Britain’s proxy war on Russia

September 27th, 2022

Tagged RussiaUkraine
A wounded man is held at gunpoint by British forces in Malaya. (Photo: Ministry of Information)

Britain’s forgotten war for rubber

September 13th, 2022

Tagged Declassified filesMalaysia

Nato knew terrorists would gain from toppling Gaddafi

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June 29th, 2022

Tagged LibyaManchester Bombingterrorism

Counter-terrorism officials allowed Manchester bomber to operate in Libya warzone

June 28th, 2022

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Manchester bomber was a UK ally

June 27th, 2022

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Britain’s bumbling foreign policy over Taiwan and Ukraine

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June 8th, 2022

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Ukrainians strip a Russian tank near Kharkiv on 16 May 2022. (Photo: John Moore / Getty)

Does the Ukraine war mean Britain should increase military spending?

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May 18th, 2022

Tagged RussiaUkraine
Ukraine far-right groups with UK-made rocket launchers (Design: DCUK)

Ukraine neo-Nazis pictured with UK-made rocket launchers

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March 10th, 2022

Tagged Ukraine
Security forces patrol an English-speaking region of Cameroon (Photo: Marco Longari / AFP via Getty)

Why we refused to comply with the D-Notice committee

February 17th, 2022

Tagged Cameroon
US President Ronald Reagan makes a speech outside 10 Downing Street, 9 June 1982. During this visit, Reagan outlined his vision for the National Endowment for Democracy. (Photo: Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

‘CIA sidekick’ gives £2.6m to UK media groups

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January 17th, 2022

Tagged Mediaus
Business secretary Kwasi Kwarteng was funded by Le Cercle in 2019. (Photo: Dan Kitwood / Getty)

Secret ‘CIA-funded’ group linked to UK ministers

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December 9th, 2021

Tagged United States
Lord Chief Justice Ian Burnett. (Photo: Peter Summers / Getty)

Assange judge is 40-year ‘good friend’ of minister who orchestrated his arrest

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December 2nd, 2021

Tagged Assange
Prime Minister Boris Johnson (Photo: Andrew Parsons / No 10 Downing Street)

Conservatives bar investigative journalist from party conference

October 1st, 2021

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